Angola

Vanessa Vick for the New York Times

News about Angola, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 19, 2015

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column describes visiting Angola to observe how Gambian pouched rats are being used to detect landmines, part of HeroRat program started by Belgian product designer Bart Weetjens; program is offshoot of Apopo aid group, which Weetjens also started, and which is now using rats to detect tuberculosis. MORE

Mar. 26, 2015

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column examines rampant corruption and graft in Angola that has become a major factor in malnutrition and child corruption; holds corruption, like the worms that infect so many of nation's children, has deeply parasitical effect; castigates Western oil companies and banks that work closely with Angolan officials, enabling kleptocracy; calls for greater transparency and pressure on leaders to use funds for good. MORE

Mar. 22, 2015

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column contrasts lives of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angolan Pres Jose Eduardo dos Santos and one of richest women in Africa, and Delfina Fernandes, impoverished resident of village of Kibanga; notes vast gulf between their lives is in many ways due to corruption in government, as Angola has one of richest pools of natural wealth per capita, yet country does nothing for vast majority of its citizens. MORE

Mar. 19, 2015

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column examines extreme plight of children in Angola, deeply corrupt African nation with world's highest rate of child mortality; contends starvation, illness and death are all the more galling in light of Angola's oil and diamond wealth; holds West should do more to oppose Pres Jose Eduardo Dos Santos as he pillages his country and leaves children to die. MORE

Jul. 30, 2014

Banco Espirito Santo's investment in Angola banking may require government of Portugal to do damage control; analysts expect Banco Espirito Santo to report first-half loss that could significantly erode or even wipe out its capital cushion, requiring bank to find funds elsewhere. MORE

Jul. 19, 2014

Espirito Santo International, one of holding companies of Portugal's Espirito Santo banking family, files for creditor protection as business empire's problems spill over to Angola, where central banks says local unit of Banco Espirito Santo needs more capital to deal with bad loans. MORE

Apr. 15, 2014

French oil company Total says it has found cost savings needed to move ahead with giant project called Kaombo in deep waters off coast of Angola; sets start date of 2017. MORE

May. 12, 2013

Paul Theroux travel article describes experience of road-side breakdown in Angola, Africa, and making meal of unsanitary-looking chicken bought from roadside vendor. MORE

Oct. 18, 2012

Angola’s government announces creation of sovereign wealth fund that will invest profits from oil sales in businesses; move is part of effort to diversify country’s economy and spread prosperity beyond small elite that has benefited from country's outsize economic growth; fund will focus on investments in Africa’s booming hotel industry and large infrastructure projects. MORE

Sep. 2, 2012

Angola's governing party, despite widespread discontent over inequality and corruption, is poised to sweep the parliamentary elections, winning over three-quarters of the votes cast; victory will ensure President Jose Eduardo dos Santos a five-year extension to his 33 years at the country’s helm. MORE

Sep. 1, 2012

Polls open in Angola's third election in its troubled history, with long-ruling incumbent Jose Eduardo dos Santos widely expected to be returned to power. MORE

Aug. 30, 2012

Op-Ed article by journalist Rafael Marques de Morais scores Angolan Pres Jose Eduardo dos Santos for failure of national reconstruction program, financed by China, that was intended to lift millions of Angolans out of poverty; says Chinese have only brought more more corruption and greater poverty, even as state's coffers have filled with unshared oil wealth; warns greed and repression of the dos Santos government increases the risk of violent revolt. MORE

Jul. 3, 2012

Dr Walter R Tschinkel study in journal PLos One finds that mysterious bare spots found in the grasslands of Namibia, Angola and South Africa can last 24 to 75 years before eventually disappearing as growth returns; cause of the spots, known as 'fairy circles,' remains unexplained. MORE

Nov. 20, 2011

Portugal's plea for cash from its former colony Angola, which is now swimming in oil wealth, marks a plaintive milestone for the financially struggling European country that once had dominated the African nation. MORE

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May 23, 2015, Saturday

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